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1979 May 16 - 1981 Feb 10
Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Private Office files (Howe)

T639/66
Budget (1979, 1981 - minutes, correspondence, meeting records) Part A

Document type: File list item
Source: HMTPO
Release date: 2012
Classification: Secret
Page count: 176
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80 Dec 15 Mon Budget: Tolkien minute to Biffen, Lawson and others ("1981 Budget") [Chancellor of the Exchequer wants a "preliminary indication of your thinking on what should be the thrust and character of the 1981 Budget"] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 16 Tue Economy: Burns minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Medium Term Prospects and the Fiscal Adjustment") [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 16 Tue Budget: Cockfield minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 17 Wed Budget: Biffen minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 17 Wed Budget: Cropper minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 17 Wed Budget: Lawson minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 17 Wed Budget: Rees minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 17 Wed Budget: Wass minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget Issues and the Medium Term Prospect") [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 18 Thu Budget: Adam Ridley minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget Questionnaire") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 18 Thu Budget: Wiggins minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot responses from HMT ministers and advisors] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 22 Mon Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("1981 Budget") [sighting shot] [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 22 Mon Budget: Cropper minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer (Friday morning 'think meeting' outcome) [monetary policy, industrial policy, taxation, economic situation] [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 19 Mon Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Cockfield-Rees-officials) ["Capital Tax Changes for the 1981 Budget"] [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 19 Mon Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Cockfield-Rees-officials) ["Benefits in Kind"] [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 27 Tue Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-officials-Alan Walters) ["Budget Strategy"] [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 29 Thu Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Capital Tax Changes in the 1981 Budget") [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mon Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-Cockfield-officials) ["Direct Personal Taxation"] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mon Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Lawson-Rees-Cockfield-officials) [indirect taxation] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 3 Tue Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Rees-Cockfield-Middleton-Battishill-Cropper-Dalton-Isaac) [stock relief scheme] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 3 Tue Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Jenkin (tax and private medical insurance, capital allowances for hospital buildings) [no tax relief for private medical insurance] [declassified 2012]